Belinda Crerar is the curator of Goddess: female power in world belief. Her previous British Museum publications include Roman Empire: Power and People.

Dirk Booms studied Classical Archaeology at Leuven (Belgium), Reading, Rome, and Cambridge (PhD), and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Birkbeck College before joining the British Museum.

His main interest is Roman architecture, but other interests include sculpture, particularly the Townley collection and the Museum’s cast collection, inscriptions, cameos, and glass inlays.

He has participated in excavations in Belgium, Turkey, Italy, and Tunisia, and is finalising the publication of the architectural fragments, design, and reconstruction of the imperial villa of Marcus Aurelius at Villa Magna, Italy, in a volume edited by E. Fentress, C. Goodson, and M. Maiuro, and of the so-called Domitianic Vestibule to the Palatine Palace in Rome, in its publication by H. Hurst. He is also turning his PhD thesis into a monograph, titled ‘Space and Identity at Roman Imperial Villas’.

He is currently digitising the Museum’s collection of Latin inscriptions and is preparing a popular book on the subject for British Museum Press.